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I'm a big fan of XBMC on the ATV but when it comes to playing music I find it a little cumbersome to use. I have been using mpd for years on my old media player and have come to love one of the clients that runs on the iPhone - mPod. I can leave the screen off and the client will cache all the music data into its own database so it is very snappy.

So I think - Why couldn't there be a mpd frontend to XBMC then I could have the best of both worlds. It turns out that someone else thought this was a good idea and they made Python scripts that act as a mpd server that controls XBMC through the rpc interface.

https://github.com/bluecube/xbmcpd

Problem is they are standalone Python scripts and I don't know diddly about python.

I understand that Python is installed with XBMC but it is not installed as a legitimate shell. Does anyone know how I can start up a python script to run outside of xbmc?

TIA

[Ned Scott]

Use NitoTV to search for Python in Cydia and install it. The one made by Jay Freeman (saurik). Then SSH in and do:

Code:

python path/to/python/script.py

to run the script

[g-off]

Thanks for the heads up. I was trying to use atp-get with no luck.

I figure I can just launch it using something along the lines of "/path/to/python/script.py arg1 arg2 ag3 etc &" from autoexec.py?

My next problem is it needs to import twisted.internet.reactor

Ok found the library, can install it from a tarball but it needs to compile with gcc....

Starting to look like a candidate for the too hard basket.